Solo Exhibitions & Screenings (Selected)

2021—Erik Deerly: Apophenia, Indiana University Kokomo Downtown Gallery, Kokomo, IN
2019—Erik Deerly: Exo Resonance, Indiana University Kokomo Downtown Gallery, Kokomo, IN
2018—Dysmorphia: Erik Deerly Exhibition, International Solo Exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea
2014—Terminal Physical Space, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2012—Art of Remembrance, Gallery@AUP, Greenfield, IN

Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings (Selected)

2026
—Planeta Complejo | Diversidad, MUSLAB, Mexico City, México
2025
—Electronic Music Midwest, KCKCC, Kansas City, KS
—FICAA Film Screening, Yancuic Museum, Alcaldía Iztapalapa, México
2024
—Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental, Coyoaçán México, México
—Sierra International Film Weekend, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
—Biophilia International Film Festival, Mexico City, México
—The Age of Artifice, 103 Gallery, Bucknell University / Winona State University
—Chicago Ai Film Festival, Chicago, IL
—NewFilmmakers NY, New York, NY
—Chroma Art Film Festival, Superblue Miami, Miami, FL
—El Ojo Iluso 2024, Festival de Cine de Animación, San Cristóbal – Venezuela (premiere)
—Vision and Expression, PH21 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (juror: Zsolt Bátori)
2023
—VIDEOMEDEJA International New Media Arts Festival 27, Novi Sad, Serbia
—2023 International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition, MUSLAB, Guayaquil, Ecuador
—Experimental Film & Video 2023, CICA Museum, South Korea
2022
—Electronic Music Midwest, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
—Perspectives 2022, International Juried Exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea
2021
—Audiovisual Frontiers, The Department of Music at UC Riverside, in Riverside, CA
—Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2021, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
—VIDEOMEDEJA International Video Festival 25, Novi Sad, Serbia
—REF—Resilience Festival 2021, MID SIDE Associazione di promozione sociale, Foggia, Italy
—Maracay International Film & Video Festival, Maracay, Venezuela
—Perspectives 2021, International Juried Exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea
—Blacksphere Live Film Festival, Juried International Screening, Blacksphere, Czech Republic
2020
—Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition 2020, York Art Gallery, York, United Kingdom
—Crisis Mode, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
—American Pie, Freyberger Gallery Exhibitions, Penn State Berks, Reading, PA
—Fl3tch3r Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University
2019
—Cyber Sanctuaries Pavilion, The Wrong Biennale, International, online, and various locations
—No Image 2019, International Juried Exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea
—Glitch, Curated International Photography Exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
—Glitches and Defects, Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome, Italy
—Magmart International Videoart Festival XI, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy

Awards (Selected)

2021—Best Animation Short Film; Special Mention Original Score Short Film for Apophenia, Five Continents International Film Festival, Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela
2021—Winner in Web/New Media category for Apophenia, L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival, Kolkata, India
2020—Aesthetica Art Prize: Top Eighteen, Shortlisted for Dysmorphia, York, United Kingdom
2016—New Frontiers of Creativity and Scholarship Grant, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2002—SXSW (South by Southwest), First place National Interactive Design Awards, Austin TX

Audio/Video Publications

Various. Planeta Complejo. (DVD compilation). Mexico City: MUSLAB / Cero Records. 2025
Deerly, Erik. Non Sequitur. (Streaming distribution). Baton Rouge: Burrdowning Media. 2024
Deerly, Erik. Apophenia. (Streaming distribution). Chicago: Bridge Art NFP. 2023
Deerly, Erik. A Sense of Place. (Streaming distribution). Paris: Arpaviva Recordings. 2022
Deerly, Erik Austin. Dysmorphia (York 2020). (Streaming distribution). Burrdowning Media. 2020
Deerly, Erik Austin. Power Will Fall. (Streaming distribution). Burrdowning Media. 2020
Deerly, Erik Austin. Five Installations. (Streaming distribution). Burrdowning Media. 2019
Deerly, Erik Austin. Parable of the Poison Arrow. (Streaming distribution). Burrdowning Media. 2011
Deerly, Erik Austin. Children of the Ocean. (Streaming distribution). Burrdowning Media. 2011
Deerly, Erik Austin. Biomes. (Streaming distribution). Burrdowning Media. 2010
Deerly, Erik. Joshua Tree. (CD). Berkeley: Émigré Records. 2002
Deerly, Erik. Itchy Pet. (CD). Berkeley: Émigré Records. 1998

Bibliography (Selected Reviews/Articles/Catalogs/Interviews)

Print Media
Future Now 2020: 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize, Aesthetica Magazine, York, UK (2020): 146-147.
“Aesthetica Art Prize 2020.” Aesthetica Magazine, (2020): 127-130.
CICA Art Now 2019, CICA Press, Gimpo-si, South Korea (2019): 18-21.
Connor, Michael. “SXSW 2002 Web Awards, and the Winners Are.” Austin Chronicle 2002, sec Vol. 21, No. 28: 63.
Rudy Vanderlans, Zuzana Licko. Emigre: Graphic Design Into the Digital Realm. 1994. 83-86.
Rothschild, David. “Home Front.” Chicago Tribune 1993. 62.
Rothschild, David. “Home Front.” Chicago Tribune 1992, sec A&E: 81.
Rudy Vanderlans. “Sound Design.” Émigré 16 (1990): 20-22.

Online Periodicals
Escudero, Guillermo. “Erik Deerly, A Sense of Place.” 2022. Loop – Santiago, Chile <http://www.loop.cl/content/view/1997/27/> “Creative Quarantine: Artist Erik Deerly.” 2020. Esthetic Lens Magazine.
     <http://www.estheticlens.com/2020/07/12/creative-quarantine-artist-erik-deerly/>
 “Artists’ Spotlight, Erik Deerly.” 2020. Aesthetica Magazine. <https://aestheticamagazine.com/profile/erik-deerly/>

Woodward, Kristen T. “Flux.” 2020. Artists2artists. <http://artdeadline.ning.com/photo/flux-21>

Woodward, Kristen T. “Dysmorphia.” 2018. Artists2artists. <http://artdeadline.ning.com/photo/erik-deerly-dysmorphia-detail>

Radio/Television/Podcast
Ponton, Ben, host. “Background Signals.” A Duck in a Tree, :zoviet*france:, 24 September 2022,
     <https://zovietfrance.podbean.com/e/a-duck-in-a-tree-2022-09-24-background-signals/>
Lancaster, Mark, host. “Box Of Delights Ep 102.” Ship Full of Bombs – Thames Delta Independent Music Radio Station, Episode 102, Thames Delta Independent Music Radio, 06 July 2022, <https://www.shipfullofbombs.co.uk>
Ashcroft, Lee, “Oscillate Live—Episode 182—One Man Underground,” July 4, 2022.
     < https://oscillatelive.org.uk/artists/lee-ashcroft>
University of Chicago, Interview, WHPK Radio, Chicago, IL, April 3, 1998.

Education

​2008—Master of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
1985—Bachelor of Music in Composition, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1986-87—Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (Graduate studies in music and film)